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Chrome is the new IE(medium.com)

8 years ago from Marc Edwards, Founder at Bjango

  • Marcus ZanonaMarcus Zanona, 8 years ago

    The only thing I know is that every time I open Chrome on my old 2010 MCP, the poor CPU goes crazy high. Had to switch to Safari to work in silence. So in my case, it had better "User Experience".

    I do however feel a bit jealous when seeing all these nice Chrome extensions coming out every now and then whereas for Safari extensions, it feels it was last updated when OSX Dashboard app was released.

    Safari is made for Apple devices only, so I do think its doubtful some other browser can achieve the same smooth experience due to having to port it to different OSs.

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    • Rick LanceeRick Lancee, 8 years ago (edited 8 years ago )

      Weren't the extensions the ones causing the high cpu? I've run chrome on a even older crappier laptop smooth. or did you not run extensions?

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      • Marcus ZanonaMarcus Zanona, 8 years ago

        I actually did that on a fresh install and the problem persisted. Even folks at Google tried to help me out but I think my mac is way too old for that and the issue with the GPU doesn't help either :/

        It's funny because the same happened when I tried to switch to Atom text editor, and because it runs based on Chrome engine, the same has happened.

        I might give it another shot and see if somehow the issue is gone with the latest version.

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    • James HarrisJames Harris, 8 years ago

      If your MCP is freaking out, check to see whether tron.exe is running. Sometimes that program gets its identity disc stuck in the MCP's security software.

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